“I don’t know what I am anymore. Miles, you must believe me—I love you as I love breath—” His heart rocketed. “But I can’t be your annex.” And crashed. “I don’t understand.” “I don’t know how to put it plainer. You’d swallow me up the way an ocean swallows a bucket of water. I’d disappear in you. I love you, but I’m terrified of you, and of your future.”
